get the number of seconds to execute a query

[n8w]

I'm trying to improve performance on my database.

How do I get the time it took to execute a query

you know something like

searched 10000 records in .025 seconds ..

thanks
n8w

[wickning1]

Usually you do it in your application. If you are using PHP, you can do something like this:

[code]$start = microtime(TRUE);
$result = mysql_query($query);
$querytime = microtime(TRUE) - $start;[/code]

[n8w]

thanks so much! ..

I have some interesting results.. do you know why I get a negative number on

[a href=\"http://www.illustrationmundo.com/illustrators.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.illustrationmundo.com/illustrators.php[/a]

but a positive number on

[a href=\"http://www.illustrationmundo.com/news.php\" target=\"_blank\"]http://www.illustrationmundo.com/news.php[/a]

you can see the result time on the bottom left hand corner of the page

[wickning1]

Hard to say without seeing what you did. Make sure you use microtime(TRUE) and not just microtime(), as the latter will not be correct.

[fenway]

You can access what you see on the command-line return, but only via the C API functions; you might as well profile it in middleware.